Rail.



A. S. CASH'& R. H. BRISCOE.

RAIL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-7, 1915.

m1 fi mfio Pathted Jan. 23, 1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented d an. 23}, TQM.

Application filed August 7, 1915. Serial No. 44,259.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ALBERT S. CASH and 7ROBERT H. BRIsooE, citizens of the United v rails,

States, residing at Elizabethtown, in the county of Hardin and StateofKentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rails, of whichthe following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in rails and means forconnecting the and an object of the invention is to produce a railhaving its head thicker at one of its longitudinal edges than at itsopposite lon itudinal edge so as to provide the tread surflace of thehead at an angle or at an inclination which corresponds with theinclination of the tread or flange of the wheels of the rolling stockwhich travels upon the said rails, and also to provide a" splice orconnecting member which includes a head or crest arranged at aninclination corresponding with the inclination of the head of the rail.

With the above and other objects in view, the improvement resides in theconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in thefollowing specification and falling within the scope of the appendedclaim. In the drawing: Figure Tie a perspective view of two railsconstructed and connected in accordance with the present invention, andFig. 2 is a greatly enlarged transverse sectional view through one ofthe rails at the joint thereof, the dotted lines indicating the positionof the car wheel upon the rail and joint member, while other dottedlines indicate the construction l of the ordinary railway rail.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, the numerals 1 designate railswhich are constructed in accordance with the present invention. Theserails include the usual base flange 2, heads 3 and connecting webs l.The heads 3 are thickened at their outer side so as to arrange the treador bearing portions 5 of the said heads at an inclination. Thisinclination corresponds with the inclined treads of the wheels of therolling stock, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the draw ings, by the dottedlines. The base flange 2, at the inner longitudinal edges thereof, ispreferably of a less width than that of the ordinary rail, while thesaid base flanges 'terially at the outer sides of the rails are of amagreater width than that of the inner flange or that of the ordinaryflange of rails, the widened portion or flange being indicated by thenumeral 6.

To connect the rails we employ upon the inner sides thereof angle bars 7of the ordinary construction, and angle bars 8 for the outer sides ofsaid rails which are also substantially of the ordinary constructionexcept the same have their body portions thickened and are provided withextensions forming crests .for the heads 9. The tread surfaces of theheads are beveledfias at 10,

the said beveled portion corresponding with the inclined tread surfaceof the heads of the rails. The members 7 and 8 may have their horizontalportions notched for the reception of suitable securing elements in thenature of spikeswhich enter the supporting ties, and their verticalplates are provided with openings which register with the bolt openingsin the webs of the rails and through which pass the usual bolts that areprovided with the ordinary securing nuts.

From the above description, taken in con-.

nection with the accompanying drawing, the

simplicity of the device, as well as the ad-,,

vantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to thoseskilled in the art to which such invention appertains without furtherdetailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim is:

The combination of a pair of rails each having a tread inclined downwardfrom the outside of the rail toward the inside thereof, fish plates forconnecting the alining ends of said rails, one of said fish plates beingconfined between the lower ed e of the tread and the upper edge of thease flange, the other fish plate having. an extension, the upper edge ofwhich is in the same plane throughout its length and lateral-lg inclinedin the same plane as the upper sur ace of the tread.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

ALBERT S. CASH. RUBERT H. BRTSCUE. Witnemes:

JOHN T. MoGinn s, EVERETT Genome.

